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Chris Hardie For Agri-View
Jul 5, 2018
Jul 5, 2018

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Chris Hardie For Agri-View

On this year’s 4th of July, our nation celebrated its 242nd birthday.

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Chris Hardie and his wife, Sherry, raise sheep, cattle, pigs – and chickens! – on his great-grandparents’ Jackson County farm. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001, he is a former member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and past president of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. Email chardie1963@gmail.com with comments.